Diversity of rhizobia isolated from various Hedysarum species

Plant and Soil

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-28

  Dov Kishinevsky, B ^a   Sen, Dipankar ^b   Yang, Guang ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hedysarum spp.; plasmid profile; RAPD; Rhizobium; serogroup

Indexed keywords

HEDYSARUM; HEDYSARUM ALPINUM; HEDYSARUM CARNOSUM; HEDYSARUM CORONARIUM; HEDYSARUM MACKENZII; HEDYSARUM PALLENS; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; FABACEAE;

BACTERIA; PLASMID PROFILE; SEROGROUP;

ISRAEL; PORTUGAL; SPAIN; TUNISIA; USA, ALASKA;

EID: 0030321470     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00035051     Document Type: Article

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